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- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think everything you do, whether it's low budget things when you're first starting out or full feature films or when you're working with Hollywood, you're always learning, all the time.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My sense of humor often gets me in trouble.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
My job is really to... everyone is reading the script, and my job is to make sure we all interpret it in as much the same way as possible. And then I give them the freedom to sort of - to get their performance across and then make suggestions where things are not working and accentuate and push things where they really are working.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess, as a director, you sort of take the script, and you find ways to interpret it.
- Puzzle
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a natural puzzle solver.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think one of the biggest jobs of being a director is getting the casting right.
- Happen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in my 30s when I finally went to film school. It was kind of always going to happen, but I did try to keep it suppressed for awhile.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd done a bachelor's degree, which I'd enjoyed, but I didn't know what to do with my life at the time. I was conflicted, and, being a hopeless romantic, I followed my girlfriend at the time to Vanderbilt, where, obviously, we broke up a couple of months later.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a depth to the look that you get with models that you just can't get with CGI. It's about the detail that you just wouldn't think to put in.
- Drifted
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jeron Lanier and 'Lawnmower Man.' That was VR. And there was the VFX1, that big giant VR prototype unit, and I was like, 'I am going to save my money and get one of those.' And then VR just sort of drifted away.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a 'Warcraft' player myself, and when I pitched my take on the film, they said right away, 'That is a player. That is the game.' So I've had their support from the very beginning.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
The feeling that makes 'Warcraft' work as a game is that feeling that heroism can come out of anything or anyone.
- Moon
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even before 'Moon,' I did a short film called 'Whistle,' and it had a lot of the things that I thought I would need to be able to do on a feature film: I shot on location, there was special FX work, there was stunt work, we used squibs, I shot on 35 mm film.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past, a lot of films based on video games think that the audience wants to experience what it's like to play the game, and that's absolutely not the case.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Film directing is really undermined if you attempt to do it by committee because there has to be a single vision as to how to tell a story. It's like if you were at a campfire, and everyone is taking turns to give one sentence in telling a horror story. It would be a mess - it's not going to make sense.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think if you're young and you're being compared with a successful family member, it's really hard to maintain any sense of self-worth and credibility.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Girls seem to get me in trouble a lot of times.
- Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eventually, I'm going to be judged purely on my own merits.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was angry and frustrated when I was younger and didn't know my place in the world.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm kind of transatlantic Eurotrash.
- Somewhat
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do have a somewhat unique upbringing.
- International
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family is very international.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
My stepmom's from Somalia, my baby sister is African American, my dad was always English, I'm a white man... You may have noticed.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess sci-fi was like my candy growing up. My dad always thought it was important for me to read an hour or two every night. And if I got stuck or didn't want to read, sci-fi was sort of the thing you'd give me to spur me on to read that evening.
- Fritz
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- Nov 07, 2020
I watched the German version of 'Baron Munchasen' and Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis' at a young age. 'Star Wars' was also a huge thing when I was a kid.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I personally prefer projecting digitally. I guess I'm of that generation where I like that clarity.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a film maker who started on the Atari and then went onto the Commodore 64 and the Amiga. So I possibly have a different sensibility to people who didn't play games growing up.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the 'what if' nature of sci-fi.
- Filmmaking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Motion capture has become very specialized but also still just a tool of filmmaking.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know if subconsciously there was some reaction going on, if there was something in me that didn't want to learn an instrument - because I couldn't have been that incompetent!
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've certainly never used my father's name as a way of getting a meeting. And fortunately, I've never needed to.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know why, but for whatever reason, that side of life - the celebrity and the spectacle - has never interested me.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love my work, but I don't like being in the spotlight. I was never going to be an actor, that's for sure.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Warcraft' is going to be a period of my life I treasure and loathe at the same time.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to build on someone else's legacy. I wanted to establish my own thing.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's always nerve-racking, showing your parents things you've been working on.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things my dad always said is that it's O.K. to do one for you and one for them. He taught me a lot of things, but that's certainly one of the many that I took to heart.
- Maturity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Treat the audience with respect and maturity, and have a certain faith in them to catch up.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
After 'The Fellowship of the Ring,' the films that followed it, instead of having their own unique aesthetic, they all wanted to be 'Lord of the Rings' as opposed to learning from 'Lord of the Rings.'
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's what I wanted to do... I wanted to make a great film that just happened to be based on a video game.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Warcraft' by its very nature is epic in scale.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It felt very fresh to me, and it feels very contemporary - this idea that conflict's not being about good and evil and not necessarily being black and white. If you dig deep enough, you'll often find that people do things because they feel that they have to as opposed to because they are evil.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Peter Jackson made the 'Lord of the Rings' movies, I remember there was a concern that people who didn't read Tolkien wouldn't go see the first one. But the films were so good in their own right that the audience grew beyond the readership of the book.
- Environment
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Warcraft' has always had a far higher percentage of women players than a lot of other games. It has always been a very welcoming environment for women.
- Escape
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- Nov 07, 2020
Games have always presented an opportunity to escape. But they are also an opportunity to go somewhere that you come to know well.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
You could make a film out of just about anything so long as there is a clear vision about the story.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Be it a video game, comic book, or cheque book, the question always is, 'What story do you have to tell?'
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am absolutely of the videogames generation, starting on the Atari and Commodore 64 and the Amiga.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think my sensibilities about storytelling and character just automatically come into play when I'm trying to work on any kind of narrative. For me, it doesn't really matter what the source of the narrative is. I will be looking for ways to make it into an intriguing story with empathetic characters.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I played lots of games, and I was a fan of gaming, so I was always looking for new games. I was also a science fiction and fantasy fan, growing up, in games and books and movies.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to work with the team at Blizzard and the producers on the film and convince them that, as a fan, I have a unique and hopefully entertaining way of taking people through the first contact story, which is really what sets up 'Warcraft' for everyone else.
- Cute
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fantasy films tend to skew towards what Tolkien fantasy was, which is that the humans, the Hobbits, and the cute creatures are the good guys, and everything that's ugly are the bad guys.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I think is unique and signature about Blizzard is that whenever they do their games, and with 'Warcraft' in particular, they take the things they love and put a twist on it. They showed that heroes can come from the most unexpected places, and as a player, you can play as a hero, on all sides.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a filmmaker, the only way that I understand how to make a film is holistically.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science-fiction cities in general, I think, are so hard to get right, because it's so easy to just play some cheesy music or do something that takes you right out of it, but 'Blade Runner' got it right, and I love that about the film.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
Toshiro Mifune was such an elegant hero, and there's something really empathetic about him.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes you see films, not just science fiction films, where you get the sense that if the camera were to pan just to the left or the right, all of a sudden you'd be seeing light stands and crew standing around. But with 'Blade Runner,' the beauty of it is that it felt like a real, breathing city.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was christened Duncan Zowie Jones.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bowie is my dad's stage name, so I was never, ever called Zowie Bowie. The tabloids liked that because it rhymed.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents did call me Zowie now and then, but then, realising that it drew too much attention, they called me 'Joe'. Then, later, I sort-of co-opted my own name back.
- Kid
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a little geeky kid anyway. If I wasn't shooting little stop-animation films, then I was playing computer games or Dungeons & Dragons.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was a sensitive boy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
You would never have seen me on any party scene, which is probably what made me able to disappear, in a way, because the tabloids had nothing to follow.
- Bit
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always bit of a jock.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was at graduate school, you wouldn't have recognised me. I was so different - and not a nice person: a grumpy, surly, upset, confused, lost person.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad and I used to shoot little one-stop animations on an old 8mm film camera when I was no more than 7 or 8, and when he was away at work, I would keep shooting nonsensical, short animated films using 'Star Wars' figures or Smurfs - depended what the narrative was.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, I was on film sets occasionally, when my dad was acting, so I got to run around and do odd jobs on films like 'Labyrinth' and others... I seemed destined to make films.
- Grad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got some funky scholarships to play soccer and did well in my SATs, so I went off to college and then grad school but found that that wasn't me. My family, relieved I seemed to have come to my senses, were happy to let me go to film school.
- Kid
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- Nov 07, 2020
I saw the drawbacks of fame as a kid. It wasn't for me.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hopefully, by the second or the third film, who my father is won't be a story anyone's interested in. They'll either like the films or they won't, and if they don't like them, I won't be making them any more.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
You only get one shot to do a first feature.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a bit of a geek, actually. So I always wanted my first film to be science fiction.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're in college, everything seems much more important than it really is.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020